Do You Grieve for Those Who Leave Catholicism?
Peter Steinfels is grieving the loss of adherents to Catholicism today in Commonweal. This analysis is fairly spot-on: Most of us base our impressions (GG editor’s note: of disaffected Catholics)…
Being Found By Love
Fr. Mark Mossa’s new book, Already There: Letting God Find You is amazing! There is a tidbit of wisdom in nearly every paragraph which will find its way into the…
Vatican’s New Internet Evangelization Office Can’t Get the Hook Up
Classic fail: Archbishop of the Vatican’s New Internet Evangelization Outreach presently does not have internet access. So says Britain’s Catholic Herald. The head of the new pontifical council charged with…
Catholic League on Glee and Why I Don’t Agree
Bill Donahue, the resident crankypants at the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who, by the way, is great as a radio guest, sounded off against Glee. The producers…
OSV Blog: Glee Lost Their Religion
Mary DeTurris Poust over at the OSV blog highly disagrees with my post on Glee yesterday: I mean, do we really believe that the writers of Glee had one of…
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What a Friend We Have in Cheesus
Last night’s episode of Glee was very, very Catholic. The teens explored religion when one, Finn, the singing QB, makes a grilled cheese sandwich on the George Foreman grill and…
Can God Turn the Hearts of Terrorists?
Our second reading from today’s Gospel reminds us that one of our great saints, St Paul, may well have been deemed a terrorist in his day. He persecuted and killed…
September 11th: We Remember
It’s hard to believe that this dreaded day in American history is 9 years old now. I lost two dear friends that day and my wife lost a cousin. One…
Why Islam Hates America?
This past week the newspaper and news stations have been flooded with tons of stories about the protests regarding the building of an Islamic Cultural Center on the site of…
Feeding Thousands with a Tiny Morsel
During my examen today, I thought about a consolation moment from today and this scripture quote came to me from this weekend’s gospel which was read at our staff meeting.…